True Disabilities

A man walks down the street

With a special cane, moving slowly

Feeling his way along his path

Another man across the town

Uses his hands o form the words

His mouth just can’t get out.

Giving a speech in a classroom

A student struggles to spit out the words

That are running through his head

Somebody balances a tray

With a single moving hand and a prosthetic limb

In the place of something that was never there

Many stare and point

Not knowing how to react or to approach

A person that is not quite the same as them

So who has the disability?

The person who has moved on

And found other means to supplement

Or the person who refuses to ask about the handicap?